With recording devices and microphones pdsounds volunteers acoustically discover the beauty of the world. From the million sounds of things to the pure waves of sinus. Our goal is to record it all and make it available for free. read more
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old book
By Cori, July 21st, 2008 Book | browsing | flipping | Pages | Paper | reading | turning | Single Subject | 192 kBit/s | Mono 1:14 minutes (1.69 MB)
Sounds of an old hardback book -- pages being turned, riffled / flicked and the book being shut.
english-coins
By Cori, July 21st, 2008 clinking | coins | english | jingling | shaking | Single Subject | 192 kBit/s | Mono 1:04 minutes (1.46 MB)
A small number of each kind of coin is heard clinking -- 1ps, 2ps, 5ps, 10ps, £1s and £2 (I only had 2 £2 coins, so this last isn't very impressive-sounding!) Didn't have enough 20ps or 50ps to sh
bag-of-coins
By Cori, July 21st, 2008 Bag | clinking | coins | jingling | money | paying | Payment | Pennies | Pouch | Purse | Single Subject | Natural | 192 kBit/s | Mono 0:41 minutes (964.74 KB)
A cloth bag of modern English coins clinking and jingling.
domestic cats
By Marcus Kuerten, June 28th, 2008 Cats | Cologne | Domestic Cats | eating | Feeding Bowl | Food | Gathering | smacking | Tabbies | Single Subject | Natural | 192 kBit/s | Stereo 1:39 minutes (2.27 MB)
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airport station bulletin board - synthesized
By Stephan, June 11th, 2008 Airport | Arrival | Board | Bulletin | clattering | Departure | News | Noise | Railway | rustling | Scoreboard | Station | Table | Ticker | Time | Single Subject | Synthesized | Experiment | 192 kBit/s | Stereo 0:41 minutes (1.26 MB)
The file consists of 7 variations of this rustling bulletin boards sound.
stomping machine
By Stephan, May 6th, 2008 *whoosh* | Fabrication | Industry | Lentils | Machine | Particles | pounding | Processing | pumping | rhythmic | scooping | stamping | stiring | Single Subject | Natural | Experiment | 192 kBit/s | Stereo 0:49 minutes (1.12 MB)
It's a plastic tub full of lentils (those lense shaped peas?) in which i scoop up hands full of lentils and let them drop again. The lentils are very smooth to the touch.
Pouring wine
By Cori, May 5th, 2008 Bottle | glugging | gurgling | pouring | Wine | Single Subject | Natural | 192 kBit/s | Mono 0:21 minutes (487.91 KB)
Pouring chilled white wine from its bottle into a tumbler (I had no clean wine-glasses handy!)
metal legs, guns and gizmos
By Stephan, May 5th, 2008 *snick* | Alethiometer | clicking | device | fine | flicking | Gadget | Gizmo | Gun | light | Looking-Glass | mechanics | Metal | Pistol | Revolver | Telescope | thin | ticking | Tripod | Single Subject | Natural | 192 kBit/s | Stereo 0:51 minutes (1.16 MB)
This is an old (40 years) camera tripod with brass metal legs that fold into one another in 3 sections each. Compared to modern plastik tripods it looks a little steampunk.
striking a Bell (15cm large)
By Stephan, May 4th, 2008 Bell | chiming | ringing | striking | tolling | Single Subject | Natural | 192 kBit/s | Stereo 1:01 minutes (1.4 MB)
Striking a bell in 4 times different manner. The bell is aprx. 13cm in diameter and 15cm high and i think of bronze.
Canon Digital IXUS 55 (normalized) turn on, off, take photo, press buttons
By qubodup, February 24th, 2008 Camera | device | digital | Digital Camera | electronic | Flash | Mechanism | Photography | zooming | Single Subject | Characteristic | 192 kBit/s | Stereo 1:04 minutes (1.47 MB)
I played around with my cam and recorded the sound, then I normalized the track in audacity. Recorded with a Zoom H2
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